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A. L. GEEK.

VIGNETTE HOLDER.

No. 399,750. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADELBERT L. GEER, OF MIDLAND, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWVIN O. BERRYMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

VIGNETTE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,750, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed May 7, 1888x Serial No. 273,027. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADELBERT L. GEER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Midland, in the county of Midland and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vignette Holders, of which the following is a specification, refer ence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in vignette-holders for photo graphic printing-frames; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and at tachment and combination of a wire spring with the printing-frame, whereby the holder forms an attachment to the printing-frame, all as more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings which accompany this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view showing the holder as in use to secure the vignette upon the frame. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the holder open. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the holder detached from the frame. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hinge-casting; and Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line a: a; in Fig. 1.

A is the photographic printing-frame,which is of any ordinary and usual construction. B is the vignetter, and O is a four-sided frame constructed of spring-wire in one piece, with the ends a abutting against each otherin the middle of one side and partly turned up. Two of the sides of the wire frame are preferably bentbelow the plane passing through the four corners of such frame, and the frame is of suitable size to overlap with two sides the sides of the printing-frame and to press with its ends upon the respective upper and lower ends of the vignette.

D is a casting in the form of a half-box, which I provide with suitable perforated ears, I), for a screw attachment to the sides of the boX, and with the recess 0 to receive the upturned ends of the spring-frame, and E is a suitable hook secured to one side of the printing-frame.

In practice, the parts being arranged and constructed as described and shown, the holder is secured to one side of the frame by means of the box D, the peculiar construction of which, in connection with the ends a of the wire, prevents the lateral disengagement of the wire.

By engaging the opposite side of the frame with the hook E the transverse sides of the spring-frame are iirmly pressed upon the opposite sides of the vignetter, and thereby hold it firmly down onto the frame.

I deem it important that the wire frame be hinged on as small a hinge as possible, so as to leave a greater portion of the wire of the arms on the hinge side free, so as to obtain greater elasticity at that point, whereby the frame will bear equally at all four corners on the vignetter.

I am aware that different forms of holders for this purpose have been devised. Therefore I do not broadly claim a holder for holding vignettes; but

\Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The combinatiomwith the printing-frame and a catch upon one side thereof, of a holder for vignettes, attached at its ends only to the opposite side of said frame, leaving all four sides of said holder free and providing greater elasticity from the hinge to the adjacent corners, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In a vignette-holder, the combination, with the printing-frame, of the hinge-box D, adapted to be fastened to the sides of the frame, and provided with the recess 0, of the four-sided springavire frame O, made of one piece of wire, with the upturned ends a and the catch E secured to the opposite side of the printing-frame, the parts being arranged to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 30th day of April, 1888.

ADELBERT I. GEEK. lVitnesses:

P. M. HULBER'I, JOHN SOHUMAN. 

